Hank Locklin ~ Similar Artists

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David Houston - 100% match to Hank Locklin

9 December 1938, Bossier City, Louisiana, USA, d. 30 November 1993, Bossier City, Louisiana, USA. Houston's forefathers included Sam Houston, who fought for Texas's independence from Mexico, and the Civil War general Robert E. Lee. His parents were friends of 20s singer Gene... Read more

Stonewall Jackson - 97% match to Hank Locklin

6 November 1932, Tabor City, North Carolina, USA. Jackson's family tree does in fact extend to the famous Confederate general of the American Civil War - hence his name. After the death of his father when Stonewall was aged two, his mother relocated to Moultrie, Georgia, where,... Read more

Sonny James - 93% match to Hank Locklin

James Loden, 1 May 1929, Hackleburg, Alabama, USA. The Country Music Hall Of Fame includes a guitar that Sonny James' father made for him when he was three years old. James has been performing since that time and has played fiddle and guitar with the Lodens' family revue. Sonny... Read more

Ray Price - 78% match to Hank Locklin

Ray Noble Price, 12 January 1926, on a farm near Perryville, Cherokee County, Texas, USA. Price grew up on a farm and by the time he left high school, was already singing and playing guitar locally. In 1942, while studying veterinary medicine at Abilene's North Texas... Read more

Leroy Van Dyke - 65% match to Hank Locklin

Leroy Frank Van Dyke, 4 October 1929, Spring Fork, Missouri, USA. Besides working on the family farm, Van Dyke learnt the guitar and sang country songs. He gained a degree in agriculture from the University of Missouri, and then worked as a farm reporter and also trained as an... Read more

Jack Greene - 62% match to Hank Locklin

Jack Henry Greene, 7 January 1930, Maryville, Tennessee, USA. Greene took guitar lessons when he was eight years old, then added drumming to his abilities. Moving to Atlanta in the late 40s, he became part of the Cherokee Trio with Lem Bryant and Speedy Price. He then became a... Read more

Jimmy Dean - 59% match to Hank Locklin

Seth Ward, 10 August 1928, near Plainview, Texas, USA. Dean's mother, who was the family's only provider, ran a barber shop and as a boy, he picked cotton and worked on local farms. His mother taught him to play the piano when he was 10 years old and he taught himself guitar,... Read more

Don Gibson - 58% match to Hank Locklin

3 April 1928, Shelby, North Carolina, USA, d. 17 November 2003, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. If loneliness meant world acclaim, then Gibson, with his catalogue of songs about despair and heartbreak, should have been a superstar. Considering himself "a songwriter who sings rather... Read more